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Outrage lives on: Ian Nairn’s critique still haunts Britain’s landscapes
Ben Tosland reviews the 70th-anniversary reissue of Ian Nairn’s seminal critique of Britain’s built environment
5plus wins approval for 12 mews houses in Wimbledon
Scheme incorporates work-from-home spaces and private roof gardens
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Steel remains the preferred choice for structural framing, forecasting steady growth ahead
CPD 02 2025: Hard landscaping specification for housing developments
Material passports: the key to carbon reduction, greater component reuse and more sustainable construction
The way forward for sustainable fibre cement facades
Building with confidence: Competency, skills and designing with structural timber
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Jan Kattein: architect as catalyst – ‘A transformational impact can be achieved with limited means’
As Jan Kattein Architects unveils its latest project at Westminster’s Church Street Triangle, Mary Richardson takes a closer look at the work of this innovative firm that weaves social practice into its inspiring and colourful placemaking
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BKD Architects reimagines Dublin office with facade overhaul
Offsite assembly helps transform Fifteen George’s Quay into a LEED Platinum-certified workplace
What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects
EPR Architects’ body of work was shortlisted for last year’s AYAs, as the practice was named a finalist for two awards, including Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year. In this series, we take a look at one of the team’s entry projects and ask the firm’s board director, Geoff ...
Terraced streets tackle climate change with ambient loop system
An award-winning initiative aims to decarbonise up to eight million terraced homes in the UK through a community-led energy model that uses heat pump networks and microgrids
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Architect of the Year Awards 2024
What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects
What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley
What made this project… Francis House by Gensler
What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects
What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design
What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects
What made this project… House of Communication by Henn
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Boomers to Zoomers
Paul Vick Architects secures planning for redevelopment of historic Chiswick care home
Youth-designed pavilion unveiled in Camden’s HS2 meanwhile garden
Rayner vows to ‘fix the system’ after report links 74 child deaths to temporary accommodation
Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community
Why inclusive housing design benefits us all
Putting children and young people at the heart of housing design
Closing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education
UK nightlife faces extinction by 2029 if venue closures persist, warns industry body
Chief Medical Officer’s report calls for active travel, improved housing, and cleaner air in cities
Labour urged to address built environment’s role in young people’s lives
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DLA completes new construction and engineering facility at Oaklands College
Loader Monteith completes rural home in Angus
Levitt Bernstein completes Newham’s first Passivhaus-certified social housing
Fletcher Priest completes refurbishment of former BHS headquarters in Marylebone
In pictures: KPF completes Istanbul bank headquarters
ZHA metro station opens as key hub in Riyadh transit system
First look at Sadler’s Wells East ahead of February opening
SPPARC completes restoration of Army & Navy warehouse in Westminster
DEDRAFT completes new-build home in rural Oxfordshire
Heatherwick completes mixed-use development in Xi’an
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WA100 2025
WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble
WA100 2025: Digital edition
WA100 2025: The big list
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Why protecting the function of architects is a matter of public safety
Protecting the function of architects is not just about safeguarding the profession – it is about protecting the public from unsafe, unregulated, and unsustainable construction practices, writes Jason Boyle
Replace the Office for Place with an Office for Space
James Dunnett argues that the prioritisation of ‘place’ over ‘space’ risks repeating past mistakes, compromising the living and working conditions of occupiers. He makes the case for modernist urbanism over the recent shift towards traditional street-based design
What’s stopping us from being more collaborative?
Anna Beckett argues that the industry must embrace deeper cooperation to accelerate material reuse, cut carbon, and drive sustainable change
WH Smith and the ‘perma-crisis’ on the high street
David Rudlin reconsiders his optimistic outlook on high streets as WH Smith’s closure and rising retail losses point to a deeper, lasting shift
Housing needs architects – and it’s time to make the case
Félicie Krikler writes for BD on housing-related issues at a critical moment for the sector
It’s time for trams – and Britain needs to catch up
David Milner explains how Europe’s thriving tram networks are driving growth and cutting congestion, while the UK’s cities struggle with poor transport, high housing costs, and weak productivity
‘This is a growth story’… Network Rail’s strategy to become one of the UK’s largest housebuilders
The transport operator’s group property director talks about the ‘new mindset’ at Network Rail – and why the country’s biggest owner of brownfield land is taking an assertive role in redevelopment projects on its sites
Jan Kattein: architect as catalyst – ‘A transformational impact can be achieved with limited means’
As Jan Kattein Architects unveils its latest project at Westminster’s Church Street Triangle, Mary Richardson takes a closer look at the work of this innovative firm that weaves social practice into its inspiring and colourful placemaking
What the delays at the Building Safety Regulator mean for high-rise development
The new system of gateway checks on high rise buildings is adding anything up to 18 months to construction programmes. Joey Gardiner finds out why
5 minutes with … Ayman El Hibri at Wilkinson Eyre
The firm’s director on the influence of his grandfather and father, the challenges of designing and building 8 Bishopsgate and why it is vital to keep learning
Material passports: the key to carbon reduction, greater component reuse and more sustainable construction
Logging the details of the products and materials used on projects so they can have a second life after demolition has been discussed but never practised on a large London construction project – until now, Thomas Lane reports
‘Frankly, what’s the alternative?’ Turley’s Stephen Bell applauds the government’s planning vision
The chief executive of one of the UK’s largest planning consultants speaks to Tom Lowe about the implications of Labour’s final revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework and what needs to be done to achieve 1.5 million homes by the end of this parliament
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Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community
How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department
Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context
Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine
Midland Metropolitan University Hospital: Inside the long, costly journey to deliver Birmingham and Sandwell’s new £1bn ‘super hospital’
A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross
A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled
‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator
A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion
Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime
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Reviews
Outrage lives on: Ian Nairn’s critique still haunts Britain’s landscapes
Saint, state and stone: the politics of preserving Old Goa’s Basilica de Bom Jesus
Film review: The Brutalist – It isn’t really about brutalism…
The bold brilliance of Edwardian Baroque: rediscovering Edwin Rickards
Rogue Goths: the flamboyant and eccentric architects who reimagined Victorian Gothic Revival
‘Where sculpture and building come together’: a history of collaboration between sculptors and architects
Why inclusive housing design benefits us all
‘New methods for the old’: how Minnette de Silva redefined modernity
Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era
Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
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